* Microsoft targets NetWare with migration incentives * How best to patch: join the debate * Sun takes page from Linux playbook with Solaris 10 * ITIL best practices gain growing interest: survey * Today on Layer 8
Just because Microsoft and Novell settled their lawsuit doesn’t mean anything is really settled. Now that Novell has transformed itself into a Linux company, it’s back in Microsoft’s crosshairs. And before Novell users can move from NetWare to Linux, Microsoft wants to get them to move from NetWare to Windows instead. Microsoft targets NetWare with migration incentives http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1116msnetware.html?net
Just because Microsoft and Novell settled their lawsuit doesn’t mean anything is really settled. Now that Novell has transformed itself into a Linux company, it’s back in Microsoft’s crosshairs. And before Novell users can move from NetWare to Linux, Microsoft wants to get them to move from NetWare to Windows instead.
Microsoft targets NetWare with migration incentives
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1116msnetware.html?net
How best to patch: join the debate
Today our Virtual Showdown on patch management opens up to your questions and comments. This is a topic that’s high on everyone’s list, so feel free to read what’s been said so far – and then put our panel on the spot.
https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1964?net
Sun takes page from Linux playbook with Solaris 10
Executives from Sun outlined their response to the growing popularity of Linux, speaking at the launch on Monday of the most significant update of the Solaris operating system in over two years. Key to the effort is a plan to release Solaris under an open source license with a new subscription pricing model, as well as a software updating system similar to those used by Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1116suntakes.html?net
ITIL best practices gain growing interest: survey
Interest in and adoption of the IT service management best practices outlined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library continue to grow, according to a recent survey, which shows the framework second only to in-house practices as the method used most often to manage IT service processes.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/111504survey.html?net
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